Ken Light
Ken Light is a social documentary photographer, whose work has appeared in books, magazines and exhibitions, focusing on social issues facing America. His photographs have been published in eight books, including "Delta Time," "To The Promised Land," "With These Hands," "Texas Death Row" and most recently "Coal Hollow."
He is also the author of the text "Witness in Our Time: Lives of Working Documentary Photographers," now in its second edition and widely adapted in college photo programs. His new book "Valley of Shadows and Dreams" will be published in 2012. His work has been in numerous photo essays in newspapers, magazines and a variety of media (electronic & film), and presented in over 180 exhibitions worldwide including a one person show at the International Center for Photography (NYC), S.E. Museum of Photography, Visual Studies Workshop, Smith College Art Museum, Visa pour L’image Perpignan (France) and the San Jose Museum of Art. His work is part of museum collections including the San Francisco MOMA, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and The International Center for Photography and the American Museum of Art at the Smithsonian. Light has received two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships, the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation.
Light is an adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley and director of its Center for Photography, and a co-founder of Fotovision, and the International Fund for Documentary photography. He has taught workshops at ICP in New York City The Missouri Photo Workshop, and in Istanbul,
Tokyo and Prague.
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